Dr. NICK BAMFORD, F.H.E.A
Curriculum Vitae
Director, Producer, Writer in TV and Theatre
TV:
1986-2010
FREELANCE PRODUCER/DIRECTOR
Extensive broadcast and corporate work includes:-
BBC:-
Drama:-
Doctors – 8 episodes – 2-camera drama shoots
Factual Entertainment etc.:-
Return to Tuscany (7 Stones Media) - Series Director. Observational Documentary
The Antiques Roadshow - multi-camera O.B.
The One Show, Gardeners’ World, Top Gear, Tracks - location-based features.
Real Rooms, House Invaders, Garden Invaders (Endemol), The Really Useful Show
Channel 4:-
Location-based factual entertainment:-
Location, Location, Location - 2 episodes (IWC)
Cooking It - 2 episodes (Radar TV)
From House to Home, Room for Improvement - 5 episodes (RDF)
How Clean is Your House? - 2 episodes (Talkback UK)
Drama:-
Mini-Worlds (2-part Schools Science Drama Special)
Channel 5:-
House Doctor Inside & Out (Talkback Thames) – location-based factual entertainment.
The Boss is Coming to Dinner (RDF) – location-based factual entertainment.
ITV:-
Abbey Extravaganza (Mosaic Films for HTV) - Writer/Director/Presenter. 30’ Ob. doc.
Brief Encounters: - Enigma (short drama. F.O.D. Productions for HTV) - Writer/Director Britain’s Best Back Gardens (Anglia for ITV) – location-based factual entertainment.
Digital/Cable/Satellite:-
Wavelength Films for Sky Arts – Suggs’ Italian Job – 8-part arts series.
EMP for UKTV Food - James Martin’s Brittany – 10-part cookery series.
Optomen for UKTV Food – 2 films with HRH the Prince of Wales for Market Kitchen.
NMTV for Discovery - Plane Crazy - 7-part aviation series – airborne/minicam filming.
THEATRE:
1993-2004 - Founder/Artistic Director, F.O.D.Theatre.
Productions directed (all touring) include:-
Cyrano de Bergerac, The Taming of the Shrew, Henry IV Part 1, The Revenger's Tragedy, Edward II, Becket.
Queer Counsel - Writer/Producer.
Arts Council funded - toured to Croydon, Hereford & Bristol.
1989-1993 - Artistic Director, Show of Strength Theatre Co..
Productions directed include:-
Beyond Therapy (Bristol + Venice), The Devil's Law-Case, Pericles, The Importance of Being Frank, Rocks in Her Pocket.
Other productions:-
Albert (Bristol Old Vic 1986)
Rough Trade (own play, Bristol, 1988)
Screaming at the Sun (New Birmingham Theatre Co., 1995),
Large-scale community Son-et-Lumiere shows with 100+ casts at
Chepstow & Caldicot Castles & Tintern Abbey – 1994-2004:
Most Loyal Knight
1648 - The Tides of War
Echoes in the Stones
Footprints on the Sands of Time
CREATIVE WRITING:
Rough Trade – adapted from La Traviata (stage) – produced Bristol 1988
Enigma – (screen short) - broadcast:- HTV (Brief Encounters) 1999
- screened: British Short Film Festival + Brief Encounters 1999, Kinofilm 2000
Queer Counsel – (stage) – Arts Council funded tour to Croydon, Bristol, Hereford 2004
Cleaning Up - (screen)
Butterfly Boy – adapted from Madama Butterfly) (screen)
– in development with Poisson Rouge Pictures, 2020
Come Out Fighting – adapted from Carmen (screen + stage)
Free to Be – (adapted from Breaking Free, by Christopher Lee Power) (screen)
commissioned by CLP Productions 2019
Media Academic
Work includes:
September 2019-20
SENIOR LECTURER, Television Drama
Falmouth University
September 2010-9
SENIOR LECTURER, Television Production
Bournemouth University
Duties include:-
Programme Leader, BA Television Production 2010-6
Programme Leader, MA Directing Film and TV 2017-9
External Examiner, BA TV Production, University of Westminster, 2011-5
BA DTP, Ravensbourne College, 2020-
BA Screenwriting, University of Worcester, 2021-
Publications:
Directing Television – A Professional Survival Guide, 2012 London, Bloomsbury.
‘it has become the bible by my side’ (University of Westminster student, 2015)
Emancipating Madame Butterfly in Queer Adaptation, Palgrave MacMillan, LA, 2019
Academic Papers:
JMComm. Phuket, 2013: From ‘Madame Butterfly’ to ‘Miss Saigon’: political and practical uses and abuses of a story.
Paper published in Conference Proceedings.
Cross-Cultural Communication Conference. Bangkok, 2016: East is East and West is West: a literary and historical view from the perspective of ‘Madame Butterfly’.
Paper published in Conference Proceedings.
ASPERA. Canberra, 2016: Looking in a Mirror or Through a Window: mainstream audiences and gay men portrayed in film and television.
Peer-reviewed paper published online in Conference Proceedings.
JMComm. Singapore, 2017: Event Cinema as Adaptation: a stage, a screen or a compromised experience?
Peer-reviewed paper published online in Conference Proceedings.
Cross-Cultural Communication Conference. Barcelona, 2018: The Strangers' Case: the challenge of harnessing the power of screen entertainment to communicate between cultures.
Peer-reviewed paper published JCA Bangkok, Sep. 2019
PhD. 2016: Emancipating ‘Madame Butterfly’: Intention and Process in Adapting and Queering a Text.
PREVIOUS BROADCASTING EXPERIENCE:
TV:
1978-86 - A.P./Producer, BBC TV Presentation - Fully trained as Studio Director.
Radio:
1974-78 - Studio Manager, BBC Radio - Specialised in drama.
PREVIOUS TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
TV:
2009/10 - Bournemouth University. Part-time Lecturer, BATV.
2010 - Aberystwyth University. Part-time Tutor. Theatre, Film & TV Studies.
1995-6 - Birmingham Drama School. Screen performance workshops.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Yachting:
1983 - Flotilla Skipper, Sporades Islands, Greece.
Responsible for 12 holiday yachts + their crews
2009-11- Commercially endorsed RYA Yachtmaster & Cruising Instructor.
Teaching Day Skipper & Competent Crew courses for Sunsail, All Points West.
EDUCATION:
Gravesend School for Boys 10 'O'-levels.
3 'A'-levels: English, Latin, Greek, 1 'S'-level: English
Christ Church, Oxford M.A (Oxon.), 2nd Class Hons. - 1971-4
English Language & Literature
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Director's Attachment – 1986-7
Bournemouth University PhD - 2011-6
Higher Education Academy F.H.E.A 2016
OTHER SKILLS:
Languages: French (fluent), Italian (fluent), Greek (basic),
Yachting: RYA Yachtmaster Offshore + Cruising Instructor. Commercial Endorsement.
Transatlantic experience.
Own 36' yacht sailed from UK, now lying Venice.
Music: Play viola to Grade VIII, violin to Grade V. Grade V Theory.
Curriculum Vitae
Director, Producer, Writer in TV and Theatre
TV:
1986-2010
FREELANCE PRODUCER/DIRECTOR
Extensive broadcast and corporate work includes:-
BBC:-
Drama:-
Doctors – 8 episodes – 2-camera drama shoots
Factual Entertainment etc.:-
Return to Tuscany (7 Stones Media) - Series Director. Observational Documentary
The Antiques Roadshow - multi-camera O.B.
The One Show, Gardeners’ World, Top Gear, Tracks - location-based features.
Real Rooms, House Invaders, Garden Invaders (Endemol), The Really Useful Show
Channel 4:-
Location-based factual entertainment:-
Location, Location, Location - 2 episodes (IWC)
Cooking It - 2 episodes (Radar TV)
From House to Home, Room for Improvement - 5 episodes (RDF)
How Clean is Your House? - 2 episodes (Talkback UK)
Drama:-
Mini-Worlds (2-part Schools Science Drama Special)
Channel 5:-
House Doctor Inside & Out (Talkback Thames) – location-based factual entertainment.
The Boss is Coming to Dinner (RDF) – location-based factual entertainment.
ITV:-
Abbey Extravaganza (Mosaic Films for HTV) - Writer/Director/Presenter. 30’ Ob. doc.
Brief Encounters: - Enigma (short drama. F.O.D. Productions for HTV) - Writer/Director Britain’s Best Back Gardens (Anglia for ITV) – location-based factual entertainment.
Digital/Cable/Satellite:-
Wavelength Films for Sky Arts – Suggs’ Italian Job – 8-part arts series.
EMP for UKTV Food - James Martin’s Brittany – 10-part cookery series.
Optomen for UKTV Food – 2 films with HRH the Prince of Wales for Market Kitchen.
NMTV for Discovery - Plane Crazy - 7-part aviation series – airborne/minicam filming.
THEATRE:
1993-2004 - Founder/Artistic Director, F.O.D.Theatre.
Productions directed (all touring) include:-
Cyrano de Bergerac, The Taming of the Shrew, Henry IV Part 1, The Revenger's Tragedy, Edward II, Becket.
Queer Counsel - Writer/Producer.
Arts Council funded - toured to Croydon, Hereford & Bristol.
1989-1993 - Artistic Director, Show of Strength Theatre Co..
Productions directed include:-
Beyond Therapy (Bristol + Venice), The Devil's Law-Case, Pericles, The Importance of Being Frank, Rocks in Her Pocket.
Other productions:-
Albert (Bristol Old Vic 1986)
Rough Trade (own play, Bristol, 1988)
Screaming at the Sun (New Birmingham Theatre Co., 1995),
Large-scale community Son-et-Lumiere shows with 100+ casts at
Chepstow & Caldicot Castles & Tintern Abbey – 1994-2004:
Most Loyal Knight
1648 - The Tides of War
Echoes in the Stones
Footprints on the Sands of Time
CREATIVE WRITING:
Rough Trade – adapted from La Traviata (stage) – produced Bristol 1988
Enigma – (screen short) - broadcast:- HTV (Brief Encounters) 1999
- screened: British Short Film Festival + Brief Encounters 1999, Kinofilm 2000
Queer Counsel – (stage) – Arts Council funded tour to Croydon, Bristol, Hereford 2004
Cleaning Up - (screen)
Butterfly Boy – adapted from Madama Butterfly) (screen)
– in development with Poisson Rouge Pictures, 2020
Come Out Fighting – adapted from Carmen (screen + stage)
Free to Be – (adapted from Breaking Free, by Christopher Lee Power) (screen)
commissioned by CLP Productions 2019
Media Academic
Work includes:
September 2019-20
SENIOR LECTURER, Television Drama
Falmouth University
September 2010-9
SENIOR LECTURER, Television Production
Bournemouth University
Duties include:-
Programme Leader, BA Television Production 2010-6
Programme Leader, MA Directing Film and TV 2017-9
External Examiner, BA TV Production, University of Westminster, 2011-5
BA DTP, Ravensbourne College, 2020-
BA Screenwriting, University of Worcester, 2021-
Publications:
Directing Television – A Professional Survival Guide, 2012 London, Bloomsbury.
‘it has become the bible by my side’ (University of Westminster student, 2015)
Emancipating Madame Butterfly in Queer Adaptation, Palgrave MacMillan, LA, 2019
Academic Papers:
JMComm. Phuket, 2013: From ‘Madame Butterfly’ to ‘Miss Saigon’: political and practical uses and abuses of a story.
Paper published in Conference Proceedings.
Cross-Cultural Communication Conference. Bangkok, 2016: East is East and West is West: a literary and historical view from the perspective of ‘Madame Butterfly’.
Paper published in Conference Proceedings.
ASPERA. Canberra, 2016: Looking in a Mirror or Through a Window: mainstream audiences and gay men portrayed in film and television.
Peer-reviewed paper published online in Conference Proceedings.
JMComm. Singapore, 2017: Event Cinema as Adaptation: a stage, a screen or a compromised experience?
Peer-reviewed paper published online in Conference Proceedings.
Cross-Cultural Communication Conference. Barcelona, 2018: The Strangers' Case: the challenge of harnessing the power of screen entertainment to communicate between cultures.
Peer-reviewed paper published JCA Bangkok, Sep. 2019
PhD. 2016: Emancipating ‘Madame Butterfly’: Intention and Process in Adapting and Queering a Text.
PREVIOUS BROADCASTING EXPERIENCE:
TV:
1978-86 - A.P./Producer, BBC TV Presentation - Fully trained as Studio Director.
Radio:
1974-78 - Studio Manager, BBC Radio - Specialised in drama.
PREVIOUS TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
TV:
2009/10 - Bournemouth University. Part-time Lecturer, BATV.
2010 - Aberystwyth University. Part-time Tutor. Theatre, Film & TV Studies.
1995-6 - Birmingham Drama School. Screen performance workshops.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Yachting:
1983 - Flotilla Skipper, Sporades Islands, Greece.
Responsible for 12 holiday yachts + their crews
2009-11- Commercially endorsed RYA Yachtmaster & Cruising Instructor.
Teaching Day Skipper & Competent Crew courses for Sunsail, All Points West.
EDUCATION:
Gravesend School for Boys 10 'O'-levels.
3 'A'-levels: English, Latin, Greek, 1 'S'-level: English
Christ Church, Oxford M.A (Oxon.), 2nd Class Hons. - 1971-4
English Language & Literature
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Director's Attachment – 1986-7
Bournemouth University PhD - 2011-6
Higher Education Academy F.H.E.A 2016
OTHER SKILLS:
Languages: French (fluent), Italian (fluent), Greek (basic),
Yachting: RYA Yachtmaster Offshore + Cruising Instructor. Commercial Endorsement.
Transatlantic experience.
Own 36' yacht sailed from UK, now lying Venice.
Music: Play viola to Grade VIII, violin to Grade V. Grade V Theory.